Our Leadership

Our executive team is made up of leaders with broad business and technology experience. You will find them sitting in the same open work spaces as everyone else, always ready for new ideas.

Rick Smith

CEO & Founder

Rick Smith is the CEO of Axon Enterprise. He founded the company in a Tucson garage in 1993 after two of his friends were shot and killed. Originally known as TASER International, Axon’s mission is to protect life — which includes making bullets obsolete. Rick’s family bet everything they had to get the company off the ground, nearly driving his parents to financial insolvency, and were saved only through TASER’s initial public offering in 2001. Rick has dedicated his life to helping public safety serve the communities they are sworn to protect. Under his leadership, Axon pioneered TASER energy weapons, made the body camera industry what it is today, and built the world’s leading digital evidence management platform, Evidence.com. In 2019, Rick published, “The End of Killing,” which challenges conventional wisdom by arguing that killing is a technology problem and offering a roadmap to solve it. He is a dynamic, inspirational and visionary leader who challenges Axon and society to rethink deeply entrenched problems and to drive toward life-saving outcomes. Rick holds a B.S. Cum Laude in Neuroscience from Harvard University, a Master's in International Finance from the University of Leuven in Belgium, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Josh Isner

Chief Operating Officer

As Chief Operating Officer, Josh is responsible for the day-to-day operational excellence of the business, including operations and execution, marketing, policies and employees. Josh joined Axon in 2009 as a member of Axon’s leadership development program and quickly established a strong track record of delivering results. In 2014, Josh led Axon’s domestic body camera and cloud software sales team to a record year and was subsequently promoted to Executive Vice President of Global Sales. In 2018, he stepped into the role of Chief Revenue Officer, responsible for Axon’s global growth, customer service, professional services, and sales operations, successfully driving annual growth rates in excess of 25%. Josh was tapped to be Axon’s COO in June 2022. He is a keen operational leader who drives discipline and prioritization across the business, and ensures that Axon is aggressively pursuing our total addressable market opportunity, supported by a world class team. Josh is a board member of the Phoenix Police Foundation and holds a B.S. in Government + Political Science from Harvard University.

Brittany Bagley

Chief Financial Officer

Brittany Bagley is a seasoned business and finance leader with experience both as an operator and as a board member. She currently serves as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer at Axon. Brittany is also a member of the board of directors at Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR). Prior to joining Axon, she served for 3.5 years as Chief Financial Officer at Sonos (Nasdaq: SONO), overseeing traditional finance functions, including investor relations and M&A, as well as real estate and information technology. From 2017 to 2019, Brittany served on the Sonos board of directors, where she chaired the compensation committee. Over the course of 12 years on KKR’s Americas Private Equity team, she held various investing roles including as a Managing Director of the technology team. At KKR, she also served on numerous boards. Brittany holds a B.A. Magna Cum Laude from Brown University.

Jeff Kunins

Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer

As CPO and CTO, Jeff leads Axon's global Product, Software and Hardware Engineering, AI, Design, and Security teams -- building Axon's complete product suite including Body and In-car Cameras, non-lethal de-escalation tools such as TASER energy weapons, and SAAS platforms for Digital Evidence Management, Productivity, and Real-time Operations. Since joining Axon in 2019, he has driven transformational expansion and up-leveling of Axon's global R&D organization and its ability to invent and deliver at scale. For nearly 30 years, Jeff has led innovation and delivered services used by millions of customers powering billions of dollars in revenue, while serving in diverse executive roles across the technology sector. Prior to Axon, Jeff was Vice President of Amazon’s Alexa Entertainment and led Alexa’s global experience, developer platform, and strategic partnerships for Alexa-enabled devices. Jeff also served as VP of Amazon Kindle’s global reading experience, GM of Product and Design at Skype, GM of Windows Live Messenger at Microsoft, and spent eight years at cloud-based voice services pioneer Tellme Networks, where he served as VP of Product through their acquisition by Microsoft in 2007. Jeff received his B.S. in Information & Decision Systems from Carnegie Mellon University, and was recognized with the distinguished Alumni Achievement Award in 2014. Jeff holds a board of directors observer seat with both Flock Safety and RapidSOS, and also serves on the board of the Seattle Police Foundation.

Isaiah Fields

Chief Legal Officer

Isaiah is responsible for overseeing Axon's legal operations, government affairs, risk management and compliance. Fields joined Axon in 2011 as litigation counsel and subsequently held positions including VP of Legal and Government Affairs and SVP & General Counsel before being promoted to EVP & General Counsel in January 2021, where he was responsible for overseeing Axon’s legal, medical and compliance departments. In his tenure at Axon, Fields has negotiated record-breaking contracts for the company, and led strategies to significantly curtail product litigation and protect Axon's innovative intellectual property rights. Additionally, he was named 2021 General Counsel of the Year for medium-sized public companies by Arizona’s Corporate Council Awards. Previously, Fields served as an Assistant Attorney General at the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, representing the state in complex civil litigation. Isaiah holds a Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctorate from Hofstra University.

Elizabeth Hart

EVP, People Operations

Elizabeth joined Axon in 2019 and is responsible for leading the company's global people organization. Prior to joining Axon, Elizabeth was the CAO for Trax Group, a Saas based start up, and spent 5 years at Bloomberg LP. While at Bloomberg she held a variety of global roles including Interim Recruiting Lead for Asia, HR Leader for the Industry Verticals and Chief of Staff for Bloomberg Government. She currently sits on the board of Girls In Tech Phx. Elizabeth holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Mary Washington.

Andrea James

Chief Communications Officer

As Chief Communications Officer, Andrea is responsible for global corporate communications, including investor, media and public relations. Previously, Andrea was responsible for Axon’s investor relations and corporate strategy, including M&A, strategic partnerships and investments, and played a central role in Axon’s repositioning as a top-tier technology company with the investment community and influencing the narrative for how we communicate Axon’s growth story. Prior to joining Axon in 2017, Andrea supported investor relations at Tesla and ran an executive coaching and consulting practice, Solve For X Coaching. Andrea has been analyzing businesses for most of her career, first as an investigative business reporter for several news outlets and then as a vice president and senior research analyst at Dougherty & Co., a boutique investment bank. While in her stock analyst role, media outlets, including Bloomberg, CNBC and the Wall Street Journal, frequently interviewed Andrea as an expert on her stocks under coverage. She holds a B.S. Summa Cum Laude in Computer Information Systems from American University and an M.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University (Kappa Tau Alpha).

Jenner Holden

Chief Information Security Officer

Jenner oversees the information security program that protects Axon's systems and products. Since joining Axon in 2013, Jenner has been instrumental in building a robust security program and a company-wide culture of security. Prior to Axon, Jenner lead the security efforts for Lifelock and the Arizona Department of Education. Jenner began his career conducting security assessments and audits of government systems for the California Bureau of State Audits and the Arizona Office of the Auditor General. Jenner has a B.A. in Economics and M.P.A from Brigham Young University. He is also a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Yasser Ibrahim

SVP - Artificial Intelligence (AI), Imaging Systems and Connected Devices Software

Yasser is responsible for leading Artificial Intelligence (AI), Imaging Systems and Connected Devices Software at Axon. In addition, Yasser works closely with Axon’s independent AI Ethics Board to ensure our technologies are built and deployed with an ethical design framework. Prior to joining Axon in 2020, he served as Amazon’s Head of Distributed Machine Learning at Alexa AI. Yasser led applied science and ML engineering teams to develop state-of-the-art deep learning frameworks and distributed algorithms powering Alexa’s large scale ML experimentation and production platforms. He also led multidisciplinary teams building computer vision systems and computational imaging algorithms for Amazon Go, the world’s first “Just Walk Out” store and technology platform. At Microsoft, Yasser led computer vision system teams to deliver technologies such as Pixelsense and previously developed flight control and autopilot systems for flight simulators at CAE Inc., in Montreal. Yasser received his BS in Microelectronics and Telecommunication Systems from Ain Shams University and an MBA from the University of Washington.

Josh Goldman

SVP of Operations

Josh joined Axon as SVP of Operations in 2017 and leads supply chain, quality, manufacturing, and international operations. Prior to Axon, Josh was a managing partner at Logistics Delivered, as well as VP of Operations at Ruan Transport Corporation, where he excelled in strategic enterprise-wide leadership and managed P&L/business development for operations across the continental US. Josh began his career as a Marine Corps Logistics/Supply Officer serving two tours in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Colorado and an M.B.A. from the University of Redlands with advanced study at the University of Cambridge Institute of Economic and Political Studies.

Pat Madden

SVP, Head of TASER

As a Senior Vice President and Head of TASER, Pat is responsible for overseeing all aspects of strategy and operations for TASER. Pat first joined Axon in 2018 as the Chief of Staff to the offices of the President and CEO. Prior to joining Axon, Pat was at McKinsey & Company in the Strategy & Corporate Finance practice where specialized in corporate restructuring and private equity in the renewable energy sector. Pat spent the first ~9 years of his career in the U.S. Marine Corps as an infantry and Force Reconnaissance officer where he served 4 tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, and across Africa and the Middle East. Pat holds an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Finance from Florida State University.

Richard Coleman II

President, Axon Federal

Richard Coleman II is President of Axon Federal. In this capacity, Richard has overall responsibility for developing and implementing the Federal Sector’s strategy and managing and executing the Federal Sector’s profit and loss. In addition to his duties at Axon, Richard serves on the Board of the Border Security Technology Consortium. He is also a W.P. Carey Alumni board member, an IRA Fulton School of Engineering board member and supports several non-profit organizations. Richard earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Electrical and Systems Engineering and an Executive master’s in business administration from Arizona State University.

Jim Zito

SVP, Accounting

Jim leads Axon’s global accounting and controllership organization. Prior to joining the company in 2017, Jim served as the Global Controller of GE Healthcare Digital, a leading provider of software and technology to the healthcare industry, where he completed GE’s Experienced Financial Leadership Program. He started his career in the audit practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP serving in roles of progressive responsibility for several large financial services clients in Chicago and Detroit. Jim graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.B.A. in Accounting and Computer Applications.

Arvind Bobra

SVP, Finance

Arvind leads various areas within finance at Axon including financial planning & analysis (FP&A), commercial finance, product finance, and treasury. Arvind joined Axon in 2015 and has held several roles within the Finance function. Prior to joining Axon, he served as Director of Finance & Business Development at Globe Specialty metals in New York City where he helped lead their IPO & execute several acquisitions. Arvind began his career as a mergers & acquisition analyst at Lazard Freres & Co. Arvind has a BA in Economics & Biology from the University of Chicago and earned his MBA from Columbia Business School.

Matt Morstad

SVP, Customer Operations

Matt joined Axon in 2014 and is responsible for leading professional and implementation services, customer success, and global customer support. He also served in Product Management, leading development and go-to-market for multiple products including Axon Body 2, Flex 2, Fleet, and Signal platform. Prior to Axon, he spent over 15 years across Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Program Management with Textron and Honeywell Aerospace. Matt studied Mechanical Engineering at Marquette University and earned his MBA with the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State.

Hans Moritz

VP, Hardware Engineering

Hans joined Axon in early 2019 as the VP of Hardware Engineering and Research & Development. Here he supervises hardware, program, research & development, industrial design, and new product introduction as they relate to all hard goods and broad support packed related firmware. He also works across the product, supply chain, validation, and manufacturing teams and is responsible for all aspects of the physical product such as Axon’s conducted energy weapons and body worn cameras. Prior to Axon, Hans was the VP of ME/ID/NPI at Intel for six years where he oversaw wearable connected devices that included heads up display products for virtual reality, LTE connected devices, and wireless charging systems. Hans began his career designing motorcycles for Honda followed by fifteen years at Oakley where he helped re-establish its image as a competitive player in the fashion world across multiple product lines. Hans has close to one hundred patents to his name spanning his twenty-five year career. He graduated from the Pasadena Art Center College of Design with a BS in Industrial Design.

Mike Wagers

SVP, Strategic Initiatives

Mike Wagers is the Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives. He is responsible for managing customer and partner relationships for Axon. Mike also oversees the US State and Local Government Affairs team and its Ambassador program. He also leads Axon’s AI Ethics Board. Prior to joining Axon, Mike was Amazon Web Service’s global justice and public safety lead, helping agencies move to the cloud. Mike served as the Chief Operating Officer at the Seattle Police Department under Chief Kathleen O’Toole, where he helped infuse new technology into the department, including designing its Real-Time Crime Center, Compstat process, developing blurring software for body camera video, and creating a YouTube channel for police video. Prior to Seattle, Mike served as the Director of Law Enforcement Operations and Support at the International Association of Chiefs of Police. He earned his Ph.D. from the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice.

Rick Smith

CEO & Founder

Rick Smith is the CEO of Axon Enterprise. He founded the company in a Tucson garage in 1993 after two of his friends were shot and killed. Originally known as TASER International, Axon’s mission is to protect life — which includes making bullets obsolete. Rick’s family bet everything they had to get the company off the ground, nearly driving his parents to financial insolvency, and were saved only through TASER’s initial public offering in 2001. Rick has dedicated his life to helping public safety serve the communities they are sworn to protect. Under his leadership, Axon pioneered TASER energy weapons, made the body camera industry what it is today, and built the world’s leading digital evidence management platform, Evidence.com. In 2019, Rick published, “The End of Killing,” which challenges conventional wisdom by arguing that killing is a technology problem and offering a roadmap to solve it. He is a dynamic, inspirational and visionary leader who challenges Axon and society to rethink deeply entrenched problems and to drive toward life-saving outcomes. Rick holds a B.S. Cum Laude in Neuroscience from Harvard University, a Master's in International Finance from the University of Leuven in Belgium, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Josh Isner

Chief Operating Officer

As Chief Operating Officer, Josh is responsible for the day-to-day operational excellence of the business, including operations and execution, marketing, policies and employees. Josh joined Axon in 2009 as a member of Axon’s leadership development program and quickly established a strong track record of delivering results. In 2014, Josh led Axon’s domestic body camera and cloud software sales team to a record year and was subsequently promoted to Executive Vice President of Global Sales. In 2018, he stepped into the role of Chief Revenue Officer, responsible for Axon’s global growth, customer service, professional services, and sales operations, successfully driving annual growth rates in excess of 25%. Josh was tapped to be Axon’s COO in June 2022. He is a keen operational leader who drives discipline and prioritization across the business, and ensures that Axon is aggressively pursuing our total addressable market opportunity, supported by a world class team. Josh is a board member of the Phoenix Police Foundation and holds a B.S. in Government + Political Science from Harvard University.

Brittany Bagley

Chief Financial Officer

Brittany Bagley is a seasoned business and finance leader with experience both as an operator and as a board member. She currently serves as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Business Officer at Axon. Brittany is also a member of the board of directors at Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR). Prior to joining Axon, she served for 3.5 years as Chief Financial Officer at Sonos (Nasdaq: SONO), overseeing traditional finance functions, including investor relations and M&A, as well as real estate and information technology. From 2017 to 2019, Brittany served on the Sonos board of directors, where she chaired the compensation committee. Over the course of 12 years on KKR’s Americas Private Equity team, she held various investing roles including as a Managing Director of the technology team. At KKR, she also served on numerous boards. Brittany holds a B.A. Magna Cum Laude from Brown University.

Jeff Kunins

Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer

As CPO and CTO, Jeff leads Axon's global Product, Software and Hardware Engineering, AI, Design, and Security teams -- building Axon's complete product suite including Body and In-car Cameras, non-lethal de-escalation tools such as TASER energy weapons, and SAAS platforms for Digital Evidence Management, Productivity, and Real-time Operations. Since joining Axon in 2019, he has driven transformational expansion and up-leveling of Axon's global R&D organization and its ability to invent and deliver at scale. For nearly 30 years, Jeff has led innovation and delivered services used by millions of customers powering billions of dollars in revenue, while serving in diverse executive roles across the technology sector. Prior to Axon, Jeff was Vice President of Amazon’s Alexa Entertainment and led Alexa’s global experience, developer platform, and strategic partnerships for Alexa-enabled devices. Jeff also served as VP of Amazon Kindle’s global reading experience, GM of Product and Design at Skype, GM of Windows Live Messenger at Microsoft, and spent eight years at cloud-based voice services pioneer Tellme Networks, where he served as VP of Product through their acquisition by Microsoft in 2007. Jeff received his B.S. in Information & Decision Systems from Carnegie Mellon University, and was recognized with the distinguished Alumni Achievement Award in 2014. Jeff holds a board of directors observer seat with both Flock Safety and RapidSOS, and also serves on the board of the Seattle Police Foundation.

Isaiah Fields

Chief Legal Officer

Isaiah is responsible for overseeing Axon's legal operations, government affairs, risk management and compliance. Fields joined Axon in 2011 as litigation counsel and subsequently held positions including VP of Legal and Government Affairs and SVP & General Counsel before being promoted to EVP & General Counsel in January 2021, where he was responsible for overseeing Axon’s legal, medical and compliance departments. In his tenure at Axon, Fields has negotiated record-breaking contracts for the company, and led strategies to significantly curtail product litigation and protect Axon's innovative intellectual property rights. Additionally, he was named 2021 General Counsel of the Year for medium-sized public companies by Arizona’s Corporate Council Awards. Previously, Fields served as an Assistant Attorney General at the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, representing the state in complex civil litigation. Isaiah holds a Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctorate from Hofstra University.

Elizabeth Hart

EVP, People Operations

Elizabeth joined Axon in 2019 and is responsible for leading the company's global people organization. Prior to joining Axon, Elizabeth was the CAO for Trax Group, a Saas based start up, and spent 5 years at Bloomberg LP. While at Bloomberg she held a variety of global roles including Interim Recruiting Lead for Asia, HR Leader for the Industry Verticals and Chief of Staff for Bloomberg Government. She currently sits on the board of Girls In Tech Phx. Elizabeth holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Mary Washington.

Andrea James

Chief Communications Officer

As Chief Communications Officer, Andrea is responsible for global corporate communications, including investor, media and public relations. Previously, Andrea was responsible for Axon’s investor relations and corporate strategy, including M&A, strategic partnerships and investments, and played a central role in Axon’s repositioning as a top-tier technology company with the investment community and influencing the narrative for how we communicate Axon’s growth story. Prior to joining Axon in 2017, Andrea supported investor relations at Tesla and ran an executive coaching and consulting practice, Solve For X Coaching. Andrea has been analyzing businesses for most of her career, first as an investigative business reporter for several news outlets and then as a vice president and senior research analyst at Dougherty & Co., a boutique investment bank. While in her stock analyst role, media outlets, including Bloomberg, CNBC and the Wall Street Journal, frequently interviewed Andrea as an expert on her stocks under coverage. She holds a B.S. Summa Cum Laude in Computer Information Systems from American University and an M.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University (Kappa Tau Alpha).

Jenner Holden

Chief Information Security Officer

Jenner oversees the information security program that protects Axon's systems and products. Since joining Axon in 2013, Jenner has been instrumental in building a robust security program and a company-wide culture of security. Prior to Axon, Jenner lead the security efforts for Lifelock and the Arizona Department of Education. Jenner began his career conducting security assessments and audits of government systems for the California Bureau of State Audits and the Arizona Office of the Auditor General. Jenner has a B.A. in Economics and M.P.A from Brigham Young University. He is also a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Yasser Ibrahim

SVP - Artificial Intelligence (AI), Imaging Systems and Connected Devices Software

Yasser is responsible for leading Artificial Intelligence (AI), Imaging Systems and Connected Devices Software at Axon. In addition, Yasser works closely with Axon’s independent AI Ethics Board to ensure our technologies are built and deployed with an ethical design framework. Prior to joining Axon in 2020, he served as Amazon’s Head of Distributed Machine Learning at Alexa AI. Yasser led applied science and ML engineering teams to develop state-of-the-art deep learning frameworks and distributed algorithms powering Alexa’s large scale ML experimentation and production platforms. He also led multidisciplinary teams building computer vision systems and computational imaging algorithms for Amazon Go, the world’s first “Just Walk Out” store and technology platform. At Microsoft, Yasser led computer vision system teams to deliver technologies such as Pixelsense and previously developed flight control and autopilot systems for flight simulators at CAE Inc., in Montreal. Yasser received his BS in Microelectronics and Telecommunication Systems from Ain Shams University and an MBA from the University of Washington.

Josh Goldman

SVP of Operations

Josh joined Axon as SVP of Operations in 2017 and leads supply chain, quality, manufacturing, and international operations. Prior to Axon, Josh was a managing partner at Logistics Delivered, as well as VP of Operations at Ruan Transport Corporation, where he excelled in strategic enterprise-wide leadership and managed P&L/business development for operations across the continental US. Josh began his career as a Marine Corps Logistics/Supply Officer serving two tours in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Colorado and an M.B.A. from the University of Redlands with advanced study at the University of Cambridge Institute of Economic and Political Studies.

Pat Madden

SVP, Head of TASER

As a Senior Vice President and Head of TASER, Pat is responsible for overseeing all aspects of strategy and operations for TASER. Pat first joined Axon in 2018 as the Chief of Staff to the offices of the President and CEO. Prior to joining Axon, Pat was at McKinsey & Company in the Strategy & Corporate Finance practice where specialized in corporate restructuring and private equity in the renewable energy sector. Pat spent the first ~9 years of his career in the U.S. Marine Corps as an infantry and Force Reconnaissance officer where he served 4 tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, and across Africa and the Middle East. Pat holds an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Finance from Florida State University.

Richard Coleman II

President, Axon Federal

Richard Coleman II is President of Axon Federal. In this capacity, Richard has overall responsibility for developing and implementing the Federal Sector’s strategy and managing and executing the Federal Sector’s profit and loss. In addition to his duties at Axon, Richard serves on the Board of the Border Security Technology Consortium. He is also a W.P. Carey Alumni board member, an IRA Fulton School of Engineering board member and supports several non-profit organizations. Richard earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Electrical and Systems Engineering and an Executive master’s in business administration from Arizona State University.

Jim Zito

SVP, Accounting

Jim leads Axon’s global accounting and controllership organization. Prior to joining the company in 2017, Jim served as the Global Controller of GE Healthcare Digital, a leading provider of software and technology to the healthcare industry, where he completed GE’s Experienced Financial Leadership Program. He started his career in the audit practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP serving in roles of progressive responsibility for several large financial services clients in Chicago and Detroit. Jim graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.B.A. in Accounting and Computer Applications.

Arvind Bobra

SVP, Finance

Arvind leads various areas within finance at Axon including financial planning & analysis (FP&A), commercial finance, product finance, and treasury. Arvind joined Axon in 2015 and has held several roles within the Finance function. Prior to joining Axon, he served as Director of Finance & Business Development at Globe Specialty metals in New York City where he helped lead their IPO & execute several acquisitions. Arvind began his career as a mergers & acquisition analyst at Lazard Freres & Co. Arvind has a BA in Economics & Biology from the University of Chicago and earned his MBA from Columbia Business School.

Matt Morstad

SVP, Customer Operations

Matt joined Axon in 2014 and is responsible for leading professional and implementation services, customer success, and global customer support. He also served in Product Management, leading development and go-to-market for multiple products including Axon Body 2, Flex 2, Fleet, and Signal platform. Prior to Axon, he spent over 15 years across Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Program Management with Textron and Honeywell Aerospace. Matt studied Mechanical Engineering at Marquette University and earned his MBA with the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State.

Hans Moritz

VP, Hardware Engineering

Hans joined Axon in early 2019 as the VP of Hardware Engineering and Research & Development. Here he supervises hardware, program, research & development, industrial design, and new product introduction as they relate to all hard goods and broad support packed related firmware. He also works across the product, supply chain, validation, and manufacturing teams and is responsible for all aspects of the physical product such as Axon’s conducted energy weapons and body worn cameras. Prior to Axon, Hans was the VP of ME/ID/NPI at Intel for six years where he oversaw wearable connected devices that included heads up display products for virtual reality, LTE connected devices, and wireless charging systems. Hans began his career designing motorcycles for Honda followed by fifteen years at Oakley where he helped re-establish its image as a competitive player in the fashion world across multiple product lines. Hans has close to one hundred patents to his name spanning his twenty-five year career. He graduated from the Pasadena Art Center College of Design with a BS in Industrial Design.

Mike Wagers

SVP, Strategic Initiatives

Mike Wagers is the Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives. He is responsible for managing customer and partner relationships for Axon. Mike also oversees the US State and Local Government Affairs team and its Ambassador program. He also leads Axon’s AI Ethics Board. Prior to joining Axon, Mike was Amazon Web Service’s global justice and public safety lead, helping agencies move to the cloud. Mike served as the Chief Operating Officer at the Seattle Police Department under Chief Kathleen O’Toole, where he helped infuse new technology into the department, including designing its Real-Time Crime Center, Compstat process, developing blurring software for body camera video, and creating a YouTube channel for police video. Prior to Seattle, Mike served as the Director of Law Enforcement Operations and Support at the International Association of Chiefs of Police. He earned his Ph.D. from the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice.